Oedipus Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him… — Arthur Koestler
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is… — Margaret Mead
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative… — Roland Barthes
Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience… — Peter Brook
Ignorance is bliss-Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions. — Stephen Colbert
Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't… — Rita Dove
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same.… — Umberto Eco
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her… — Ayelet Waldman
I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time. — Jasper Fforde
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. — Tom Robbins
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue,… — Joseph Campbell
Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who… — Gilles Deleuze
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny
â€Ž"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it. — M.J. Rose
I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex. But… — Arnaud Desplechin
Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex. — Ben Affleck

Who Wrote These Oedipus Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 18 Oedipus Quotes as follows: